Welcome to the home page for the 2015 Sunset Cliffs Classic tournament hosted by Point Loma on Feb 7-8, 2015 for College students.
Status: Tournament Completed
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<p>Dear Colleagues:</p>
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The Point Loma Nazarene University forensics squad is pleased to invite you to<br />
our annual SUNSET CLIFFS CLASSIC Invitational forensics tournament. The<br />
tournament will be held February 7-8, 2015. We hope you can come enjoy our<br />
beautiful seaside campus and the typically sunny weather.</p>
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We will offer open and novice division competition in all eleven AFA individual<br />
events (possibly collapsing some events should numbers so dictate) and six rounds of<br />
Junior and Senior divisions of Parliamentary Debate, and junior and senior divisions of<br />
NFA LD debate, plus one round of British Parliamentary Debate.</p>
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This year we will again offer a division of British Parliamentary Debate as it went so well last year..<br />
We hope that it will attract not only some of the well-established BP programs, but also other schools that<br />
have been wanting to experiment with this newer format to our region. This event might open a world of<br />
travel and debate opportunity for your programs. Due to longer scheduled number of and time of rounds<br />
though, students and judges in BP debate cannot be involved in other forms of debate or individual<br />
events at the Sunset Cliffs.</p>
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On Friday, February 6th, 2015, Pt Loma will also host a one day Round Robin Tournament of<br />
Excellence for NPDA style parliamentary Debate. We expect to limit the field to a dozen or so of the top<br />
teams in the nation. The following 9 teams are automatically invited based on performances at certain<br />
key tournaments last year: Cedarville University, Concordia University Irvine, Lewis & Clark College,<br />
Point Loma Nazarene University, Southern Illinois University, University of Texas at Tyler, Washburn<br />
University, William Jewell University, University of Nevada at Reno. We realize that budgetary<br />
restraints and schedule conflicts will not allow all these teams to accept their bids this year, though many<br />
already have. We expect to have a half dozen or so remaining slots to fill by competitive bid from other<br />
top programs around the county. We are inviting directors of forensics interested in being considered for<br />
this tournament to submit to me an electronic bid for one team by December 19th, including the names<br />
of the proposed debaters and critic, and the debaters’ record and significant accomplishments. We also<br />
traditionally include at least one outstanding community college team. Please also send me a note by Friday,</p>
<p>December 19th if you are receiving an automatic bid, as to whether you will be joining us.</p>
<p>San Diego State University will also be hosting an Individual Event Swing this year on Friday,<br />
February 6th, 2015. This event has traditionally been hosted by Southwestern College in Chula Vista.<br />
The Sunset Cliffs Classic IEs will not start until around noon, to allow swing IEers to catch up on sleep.<br />
Assuming the President’s State of the Address speech is again offered prior to the tournament we will<br />
continue to draw Parliamentary debate topics from the address for both the Sunset Cliffs and the Round<br />
Robin. Coaches and students are invited to submit recommended topics for our consideration.</p>
<p>Some noteworthy attractions of the Sunset Cliffs Classic include:<br />
• Strong competition with diverse regional representation and quality judging.<br />
• A picturesque ocean front campus.<br />
• Two $3,000.00 scholarships for the top community college competitors (one each for debate<br />
& IE’s) for tuition at PLNU.<br />
• A Sunday morning chapel for all interested coaches, judges, and/or students.</p>
<p>Dr. Skip Rutledge, Director of Forensics Prof. Melissa Lazaro, ADOF<br />
skiprutledge@pointloma.edu melissalazaro@pointloma.edu<br />
(619) 849-2391 (619) 849.2585</p>
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